South Africa's capital Pretoria will cease to be known by that name this year. Its new name will be Tshwane. It's not the first city to change its name; over the centuries it’s happened to hundreds of them. Sometimes the change was painless, sometimes violent.
These days a new moniker for a metropolis often entails a multimillion operation for government and businesses. Radio Netherlands Worldwide takes you on a journey around the world via a selection of cities that are no more.
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What a waste of money. With record unemployment and a vast host of other problems ZA would be wise to focus on that instead.
a waste of money??!! you cheap!!no money is too much than what we paid to remove Andries Pretorious colonial system. YOU CAN PUT A PRICE ON FREEDOM.
If the map is correct, New York City seems to have been moved from the Atlantic coast to the southern edge of Lake Ontario, hundreds of miles away. That's even more startling than the name change.
Waah!
Awesome Ted, your powers of perception are awesomely right... and we are awesomely wrong.
Thanks for the tip!
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